Casablanca was the site of one the many WWII meetings between FDR and Winston Churchill.
Casablanca Records was started in the 1970s by Neil bogart and several others who had left Buddah Records. The Casablanca label quickly succeeded with such acts as Kiss, Donna Summer, The Village People, Cher, and Parliament featuring George Clinton. The Casablanca organization was soon bought by, and later combined with, Polygram.
Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton were both adopted in childhood by their stepfathers, and changed their last names to match.
Gerald Ford, of course, is the only President who was elected as neither President or Vice President; he replaced first Spiro Agnew and then Richard Nixon when each resigned.
Apparently following the time-honored advice to aspiring authors to “write what you know”, Spiro Agnew penned a novel called The Canfield Decision. The book’s protagonist is a vice-president who is destroyed by his ambition.
Glenn Close played the Vice-President of the US in Air Force One, and the First Lady in Mars Attacks!.
Glenn Close played the unbalanced mistress in Fatal Attraction.
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinnes recounts the real-life story of Jeffrey MacDonald, who either did or did not murder his wife and children in 1979.
Vice President Joe Biden is said to be the best golfer of the high-powered foursome (including President Barack Obama, Speaker John Boehner and Ohio Gov. John Kasich) who played yesterday on a course at Andrews Air Force Base.
Andrews AFB is the home to the 89th Airlift Wing, commonly known as the “Air Force One” unit but whose broader mission statement says it "provides global Special Air Mission airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the president, vice president, cabinet members, combatant commanders and other senior military and elected leaders as tasked by the White House, Air Force chief of staff and Air Mobility Command. " When not flying the President or VP, the 89th’s planes, which include Gulfstream III’s and V’s, 737’s, and 757’s as well as the famous pair of 747’s, use the radio call sign “Venus”.
Although the two aircraft typically used as Air Force One look like Boeing 747s from the outside, they are custom-built executive transports designated as VC-25As by the Air Force. They began their service in 1990. They are expected to be replaced by three other aircraft, likely also built by Boeing, in 2017.
If Obama is re-elected next year, his successor would take office on January 20, 2017.
Adam Vinatieri’s field goal as time ran out (well, actually, there should probably have been a second or two left, but clearing the field of hundreds of people and tons of confetti seemed too daunting a task against the slim chance of the ensuing kickoff being returned for a touchdown) lifted the New England Patriots to a 20-17 win over the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
In 1948, Fred Gehrke of the Los Angeles Rams was the first NFL player to wear a logo on his helmet – the horns of a ram. Gehrke painted them himself, but the idea caught on quickly and nearly every NFL team except the Cleveland Browns has some sort of logo on their helmets.
There have been three U.S. Navy ships named Cleveland after the northern Ohio city. The current warship, LPD-7, is an amphibious transport dock ship commissioned in 1967. She is now the third-oldest ship in the fleet, after the USS Constitution sail frigate and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, launched 1765, is the oldest naval vessel still in commission.
I think she is in drydock however, so Old Ironsides may be the oldest still afloat.
The New Ironsides was an ironclad warship commissioned into the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Two other prototype ironclads were built around the same time, the USS Galena and the USS Monitor. The Monitor was by far the most successful and copied ship of the three.
After Perry Mason was cancelled, Raymond Burr moved on to star in Ironsides, about a former police chief of detective who was in a wheelchair after being hit with a sniper’s bullet. The show ran for eight seasons.
In Tom T. Hall’s song “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine”, a reference is made to the bartender passing time by watching Ironside, although Hall (as do many) incorrectly refers to the show as “Ironsides”.
The surviving Lincoln assassination conspirators were held for trial in the Washington Navy Yard aboard the ironsided monitors USS *Montauk *and USS Saugus. The latter was named for the Massachusetts hometown of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. Saugus was later the hometown of Charles Moulton, creator of Wonder Woman, and is currently that of at least two prominent Dopers.